Journal Details
Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies
Instructions for Authors
Authors can submit manuscripts to LACES by e-mail or by regular post.
A manuscript submitted by e-mail should be saved as a PC compatible Word file and attached to an e-mail message sent to Prof. Leon Zamosc, Editor-in-Chief, LACES, at laces@dssmail.ucsd.edu.
Regular post submissions should include a hard copy of the manuscript accompanied by an identical electronic version on disk (PC compatible Word file).
Please make sure that your contact address information is clearly visible on the outside of the packages you are sending to Editors. The submission should be mailed to:
Prof. Leon Zamosc, Editor-in-Chief
LACES - Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies
Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0528, USA.
Telephone: (858) 822-0133
Fax: (858) 534-7175
E-mail: laces@dssmail.ucsd.edu
Manuscripts should be in English typed in double spacing (including all notes and references) on one side only of the paper, letter size (8.5 x ll inches). The text should be formatted on 12-font letters with 1" margins on both sides. British or American spelling is acceptable provided usage is consistent.
Submission of a paper to LACES will be taken to imply that it presents original, unpublished work not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Authors are requested to identify the section for which their submissions are intended. LACES features the following sections:
Research Notes: Short papers focused on the limited presentation of research results, extensions of prior research, brief studies, critical commentary, or pointed theoretical or methodological discussion. Purely descriptive accounts may be suitable if they are well-justified and of interest to the readers of LACES. Subjected to anonymous review by external referees. Maximum length: 4000 words.
Perspectives: Papers that provide synthetic overview, conceptual discussion, critical commentary, or historical perspective. More room for speculation, evidence backing some new ideas can be limited, though some papers may present substantial research results. Subjected to anonymous review by external referees. Maximum length: 10000 words.
Comments and Replies: Critiques and responses, focused on materials previously published in LACES or other venues. Reviewed by editors and members of the journal's International Advisory Board. Maximum length: 1500 words.
Review Essays: Papers that provide critical scrutiny of two or more recent books focused upon a common issue, topic, or theme. Reviewed by editors and members of the journal's International Advisory Board. The length of review essays depends on the subject matter and the number of books reviewed.
Manuscripts must include an abstract of 150-200 words (abstracts are not required for Comments, Replies, and Review Essays). All pages should be numbered. The full postal and E-mail addresses of the author who will check proofs and receive correspondence and offprints should also be included, as well as telephone and fax numbers. A brief biographical note about each author should be supplied on a separate sheet.
LACES uses the Harvard references system. Where there are two or more works by one author in the same year, these should be distinguished by using 1990a, 1990b, etc.
References in the text: The references in the text should include the last name of the author, publication date and page references as a key to the full bibliographic details that appear in the list of References. Examples:
... was investigated by Johnson (2001)
... was investigated by Johnson (2001) and Smith & Williams (2002b, pp.82-124)
(Johnson 2001)
(Johnson 2001, p. 33)
(Johnson 2001, pp. 155-163)
(Johnson 2001, pp. 78, 233-321)
(Johnson 2001; Smith & Williams 2002b; Jones 2005)
(Johnson 2001, p. 91; Smith & Williams 2002b, pp. 52-59; Jones 2005, pp. 9, 12-14)
List of References: The list of References should include every work cited in the text. Please ensure that dates, spellings and titles in the list are consistent with those used in the text. Titles of journals, and names of publishers, etc., should not be abbreviated. Acronyms for the names of organizations, treaties, etc., should be followed by the title in full. Please follow the following examples:
Example:
Abraham, S. (2001) ‘The shifting sources of racial definition in Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana: a research agenda', Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 979–997.
Book - Author's surname, author's initial(s) (Year of publication) Title of Book, edition [if not first], publisher's name, place of publication.
Example:
Wade, P. (2000) Music, Race, and Nation: Música Tropical in Colombia, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Example:
Young, G. (1981) ‘Hospice and health care', in Race, Class and Education, eds C. Saunders, H. Summers & G. Teller, Edward Arnold, London, pp. 145–167.
Example:
Postero, N. & Zamosc, L. (eds) (2004) The Struggle for Indigenous Rights in Latin America, Sussex Academic Press, Brighton.
Conference Proceedings - Author's surname, author's initial(s) (Year of Publication) 'Title of Paper', Title of conference, Location of conference, page numbers of paper.
Example:
Bohre, N. (1993) 'Integrated education', IEEE Symposium on Education, Detroit, MI, pp. 276-281.
Newspaper - Author's surname, author's initial(s) (Year of publication) 'Title of article', Name of Newspaper, Date., page number(s)
Example:
Simpson, L. (1987) 'Education goes private', The Sunday Times, 13 Oct., p. 10.
Electronic Media - Author's surname, author's initial(s) (Year of Publication) 'Title of article', Title of website, [Online] Available at: URL of website.
Example:
Weibel, S. (1990) 'Metadata: the foundations of resources', D-lib magazine, [online] Available at: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/July95/07weibel.html
Example:
Tables and figures. These should be comprehensible without reference to the text. Each must appear on a separate sheet, with the desired position indicated in the text and numbered continuously (for example, Table 1, Table 2; Figure 1, Figure 2 etc.). Where various shadings are used within one figure please ensure that it is easy to differentiate between them.
Proofs will be sent to the author if there is sufficient time to do so. Proofs including proofs of illustrations are supplied for checking and making essential corrections, not for general revision or alteration. Proofs should be corrected and returned within the time frame specified.
Free article access: Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com) and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Reprints of articles published in this journal can be purchased through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk
Copyright. It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Taylor & Francis. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors may, of course, use the article elsewhere after publication without prior permission from Taylor & Francis, provided that acknowledgement is given to the Journal as original source of publication, and that Taylor & Francis is notified so that our records show that its use is properly authorised. Authors retain a number of other rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies documents. These policies are referred to at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authorrights.pdf for full details. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.
